Replies to post #91654 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[wall_rus]

Too funny

[StephanieVanbryce]

Of Course She's Running For President



It's her divine mission, as she sees it. And it would be a function of "divine intervention" as she explicitly said last night.

Ambers, previously a skeptic, comes around. Given the complete lack of talent among GOP ranks and their universal fear of taking on Palin supporters, it seems obvious to me she will likely be the next GOP nominee. My hope, of course, is that this a) forces what was once a serious governing party to nominate a responsible fiscal conservative in the primaries and fight back against the madness; or b) drives every last sane conservative to realize they have no choice but to back Obama; or c) that Palin so alienates the GOP elites by primary challenges that they somehow manage to quash her and she runs as a "rogue" third party George Wallace style candidate, and helps re-elect Obama by an electoral college landslide.

This is so far into the future, of course, that it's pure speculation.

She may also implode as more scrutiny exposes who she and her dangerous, radical and clearly controlling husband really are. But I'm beginning to wonder if there's anything in her past, any lie or scandal, that could at this point deter her supporters. If she were found guilty of a Watergate-level iniquity, they'd see it as a frame-up by the liberal elites (as many, remember, did Nixon). And those elites, out of cowardice and fear, never nipped this in the bud when they could have; and that bitter old cynic, McCain, gave her the platform she needed.

So we have here a truly Coughlinite movement, headed by an Eva Peron figure, eager to use the Dolchstoss card to bring out the kind of voters Rove always believed could eventually crush even the most mobilized democratic GOTV operation.

Know fear.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/02/of-course-shes-running-for-president.html

[wbmw]

Re: Palin: "I Will Live, I Will Die For the People Of America!"

I don't question Palin's sincerity. Of course, she wants what's best for America. The problem is that she doesn't understand what it means to run a country, and even needs a crib sheet in order to remember simple talking points.

That's the whole problem with the Tea Party in general. They haven't said anything substantive about what policies they'd want to challenge, or what they'd do differently. The real naivity is that they put their faith into one-liners like the one you linked to above, without having a shred of a clue about what it takes to back those statements up.

The corporate funded astro-turfing-in-the-name-of-grass-roots movement has an entire population of people demanding a better government, when the government they have is already working for them, and the one they want to replace it with is exactly the one who is funded by those working against their best interests.

It's the irony of current politics, and it's sad. But the propaganda engine is so powerful that it has people coming out in mobs to overturn a Democratic government to replace it with a Plutocracy. It's driven by fear, ignorance, and money - a powerful combination.